Research Fields

• U.S. History
• African American History
• Labor History
• Consumer Culture
• History of Capitalism

About

Dr. Ronny Regev’s research focuses on modern U.S. history, with a particular interest in how the political economy and everyday life shape one another.  In 2017, Regev joined the History department at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem as an Assistant Professor. His current research examines African American consumer culture in the first half of the 20th century. Regev teaches courses on African American History, the History of Capitalism, American Consumer Culture, and Labor History.

 

Selected Publications

Working in Hollywood (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2018).

“Hollywood History is So White,” Reviews in American History 49, no.1 (2021), 70-75.

“We Want No More Economic Islands”: The Mobilization of the Black Consumer Market in Post War U.S. History of Retailing and Consumption 6, no.1 (2020), 45-69.

“Hollywood Works: How Creativity Became Labor in the Studio System,” Enterprise and Society 17, no.3 (September 2016), 591-617.

 

Selected Awards

Buying Black Power: African Americans in the Era of Mass Consumption and Segregation (1880-1960), Israeli Science Foundation Individual Research Grant (2019-2021)

 

Teaching

• Bachelor's degree courses
  • History of Capitalism
  • African American History
  • History of the American Workplace
  • American Consumer Culture
  • The Civil Rights Movement
  • The New Deal
  • U.S. in the 1970s
  • U.S. Foreign Policy
     
• Master's degree courses
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